Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was urged into the air again , kicking out with its back legs , seeming to hang there motionless , and then on hind legs it walked several steps forwards . |
| 2 | Sun will also be offering Viking versions of the Galaxy 630MP , 670MP and 690MP multi-processors it introduced this winter , configured with one to four processors . |
| 3 | Although the project was a disaster , costing France £10 million , and counter-productive in giving Greenpeace much-needed publicity about France 's nuclear tests , it at least gave the DGSE some confidence that if in the future it accepted another Henry II-type command it would have the backing of its politicians . |
| 4 | In the discussion of inter-generational talk it emerged that code switching from English to Creole was relatively infrequent , and was not usually as a response to another speaker using Creole , although it sometimes was . |
| 5 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
| 6 | He also involved a religious foundation — the Charterhouse — in his scheme ( although it appears that in practice it played little part ) and wanted his Master to be a Scholar of Eton or of Winchester ( if such could be found ) and to be appointed on the recommendation of the Provosts of Eton College and of King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 7 | On the revenue side it meant such devices as changing the weighting of the staff mix so that a greater proportion of unqualified staff were employed than might ideally have been desired . |
| 8 | In most of the present liberal-democratic countries it required many decades of agitation and organization , and in few countries was anything like it achieved until late in the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Japan ( not the United States , as suggested last week ) still boasts the world 's biggest official foreign reserves : at the end of January it had some $79 billion-worth ( including foreign currency , SDRs and its reserve position at the IMF , but excluding gold ) . |
| 10 | Since it involved a fresh assessment of wealth it encountered some hostility . |
| 11 | In the Tokugawa period it enjoyed some autonomy , and was permitted a certain degree of self-reliance and self-government . |
| 12 | Before the cinema opened the men on the staff were given cigars to puff , so that when you came into the foyer it had that smell of luxury . |
| 13 | In China it took many years for the railway to broach the capital . |
| 14 | From a distance it resembled some piece of modern sculpture : disjointed planes , random angles , a lot of holes . |
| 15 | Enthoven pointed out that whereas the NHS efficiently contained costs at the macro-level it provided few incentives to consistently reward efficiency and high performance at the micro-level , and indeed penalised both . |
| 16 | Well yesterday because of the long queue it happened that way . |
| 17 | It knew somehow that it belonged there , not here , and when thunder boomed in the sky it heard that thunder in its newly transmogrified body . |
| 18 | Masklin ran this sentence through his head again , in case it made any sense when you listened to it a second time . |
| 19 | In addition it made some recommendations to BRAC , one of which was to encourage BRAC to make a greater effort to cooperate with the local village practitioners . |
| 20 | The exposure it received this year was an all-time record . |
| 21 | Though his union did not entirely disappear in Hull it took many years to recover . |
| 22 | At times it seemed that price increases would be favoured as a means of raising self-financing and reducing pressure on the capital market ; at others that rises would be deprecated as contributing to inflation . |
| 23 | While it declined to say how much money it got this time , its four backers , the Mayfield Fund , Institutional Venture Partners , Menlo Ventures and St Paul Venture Capital , are now into it to the tune of $12.2m total . |
| 24 | Raving resembled a huge , religious ritual , and like other such rituals it gave many people an insight into a transcendental state . |
| 25 | A property it acquired many years ago is carried at a valuation . |
| 26 | One of the Baltimores was hit by flak and as it spun out of position in the combing box it hit another aircraft , both then spun into the sea . |
| 27 | In the week before the start of the congress it emerged that party ideology secretary Vadim Medvedev was canvassing support among the party leaderships in several republics and in Moscow and Leningrad for postponing the congress until the autumn . |
| 28 | In the course of its report it made several suggestions as to reform of the law to increase the availability of credit by removing what were perceived to be legal handicaps : Specifically , the Banking Commission recommended changes in the law of security . |
| 29 | Last year it made more profit than any of the clearing ( commercial ) banks against which it increasingly competes . |
| 30 | With the conventional weighing system it took some time for the information about packet weights to get to the point where decisions could be made to adjust either the oven or the wrapping machine . |